CloudHQ Expands Querétaro Data Center Campus Investment to $6 Billion and 1 Gigawatt Power Capacity
By Editorial Staff
October 14, 2026
U.S. data center operator CloudHQ hasannounced a major expansion of its flagship Querétaro Data Center Campus,scaling its total investment to nearly $6 billion USD. The company alsoannounced a quadrupling of its site power capacity—moving from an initial 250MW to nearly 1,000 MW (1 Gigawatt)—to support hyperscale cloud andartificial intelligence infrastructure.
The revised plan adds $1.2 billion USDto the previously slated $4.8 billion commitment, elevating the multi-buildingdevelopment into one of the largest digital infrastructure projects everundertaken in Latin America.
Scaling Power Infrastructure to 1 Gigawatt
A core pillar of the expansion involves massiveupgrades to the campus's power and grid transmission architecture. According toCloudHQ leadership, the power capacity increase to nearly 1,000 MW will beentirely funded and developed by the company to ensure direct grid reliabilityand high-density transmission services for its tenants.
- Facilities: The master plan encompasses six state-of-the-art Data Center buildings within a unified campus.
- Target Workloads: Designed specifically for high-density computing, cloud providers, mission-critical IT workloads, and AI model training.
- Infrastructure Timeline: Company executives confirmed during an official state briefing that engineering work and construction milestones remain strictly on schedule.
Executive Alignment and Strategic Impact
The expanded vision was presented during ahigh-level meeting between CloudHQ executives Keith Harney, Global Chief GrowthOfficer, and José Fraga, Executive Vice President for Latin America. andQuerétaro state leadership Mauricio Kuri González, Governor of Querétaro; MarcoAntonio Del Prete Tercero, Secretary of Sustainable Development (SEDESU); andMauricio Reyes Caracheo, General Director of the State Energy Agency.
By elevating its commitment to $6billion and nearly 1,000 MW, CloudHQ reinforces Querétaro’s position as theprimary hyperscale data center and cloud computing hub in Latin America.
